in virginia. you've been writing on declassified on your blog about the gun lobby and some of the concerns in fact that the gun, the antigun activists, have about president obama. >> well, sure. look, this is an issue that the obama administration almost across the board has not touched at all. they have almost from the beginning, shut down attorney general holder and secretary of state clinton when they talked about reinstating the ban on assault riffles. clearly, political decision went made that this is too sensitive. they don't have enough votes on capitol hill. here is something that i don't think many people have focused on. we wrote about today. the bureau of firearms, policing the illegal flow of weapons. you have them flowing across the border. also, going to criminal gangs. 15 months into the obama administration, not even a nominee to run the agency. >> what's happening behind the scenes? >> what you get told is given the almost inevitable resistance from the nra and gun lobby, they can't find anybody to take the job, so they've looked really hard, they've offered to a lot of pe